Alkali-activated cements and concretes

We would like to express our profound thanks and deep gratitude to those who make this book possible: Ms Chen Xiaoyang and Yuan Jiang of Chongqing University Press, China, for their enthusiastic help in reproducing the drawings and compilation of book index, Caijun Shi’s daughter Joy Shi for reproducing and annotating many drawings for this book, Pavel Krivenko’s colleague Dr Elena Kavalerova for searching and selecting relevant publications in Russian and translating them into English, Prof. Jushi Qian of Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, for collecting relevant Chinese publications, Dr Chuck Cornman of W. R. Grace, USA, for his review and comments on Chapter 2, Beatrix Kerkhoff of Portland Cement Association, USA, for her review and comments on Chapter 3, Dr Adrian Brough of Leeds University, UK, for his review and comments on Chapters 4 and 5, Dr Frank Collin of Maunsell Australia, Australia, for his review and comments on Chapters 6 and 7, Steve Kosmatka of Portland Cement Association, USA, for his review and comments on Chapters 8 and 13, Dr Ana Fernandez-Jimenez of Eduardo Torroja Institute (CSIC), Spain, for her review and comments on Chapters 8, 10 and 11, Prof. Jan Deja of University of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland, for his review and comments on Chapters 12 and 13.